What’s So Scary About Recursion?

The B in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

The Fibonacci sequence is one of the better known sequences of numbers, and one of my favourites. If you’ve never seen it — or, more likely, if you only ever saw it in some long-forgotten maths lesson and need a refresher — here are its first 10 terms:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34